What Is Yellowcake, Anyway? Slate Magazine

Uranium Mining Techniques Investing News Network

Uranium occurs with copper, gold, silver, and rare earth elements in a large hematite-rich granite breccia complex overlain by flat-lying sedimentary rocks. Historical trends. Uranium mining methods have been changing. In 1990, 55 percent of world production came from underground mines, but this shrunk dramatically to 1999, with 33 percent at the time.

Supreme Court asked to weigh in on uranium mining debate

Findings on Uranium Tailings CCNR

The mining and milling of uranium ore produces very large volumes of long-lived, low-level radioactive tailings which have leached into waterways in the vicinity of Elliot Lake, Ontario, thereby posing serious health and environmental problems.